Dr. Keith Payne is President and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy, a nonprofit research center located in Fairfax, Virginia. At National Institute, he directs and participates in studies on U.S. strategic policy and force posture issues, arms control, BMD, and Russian foreign policy. He also serves as Head of the Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies of Missouri State University, Washington, D.C. campus.
On leave from National Institute in 2002 and 2003, Dr. Payne served in the Department of Defense as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy, where he led OSD?s efforts on force posture issues, arms control, and ballistic missile defense. He received the Distinguished Public Service Medal from Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and the Forces Policy office Dr. Payne led received a Joint Meritorious Unit Award.
Dr. Payne serves on the Defense Science Board, the DoD Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, is Co-chairman of the Nuclear Strategy Forum, is the Policy Chairman of the Strategic Command?s Senior Advisory Group and it?s Missile Defense Assessment Team. He is the Editor-In-Chief of Comparative Strategy: An International Journal. Dr. Payne has served as a participant or leader of numerous governmental and private studies, including the 1998 "Rumsfeld Study" of missile proliferation and the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of over ninety published articles and sixteen books and monographs.
Dr. Payne received an A.B. (honors) in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976, studied in Heidelberg, Germany, and in 1981 received a Ph.D. (with distinction) in international relations from the University of Southern California.
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